The Mummy (Alex Kurtzman, June 9th, 2017) Movie • Page 4

"Worst Tom Cruise movie ever"

 

down to 21% on RT

 

This was entertaining blockbuster garb. I generally enjoy Tom Cruise in anything I see him in, but I feel like this movie would've been more fun to watch if Jake Johnson had the lead role.

 

That's what I thought. Tom Cruise felt miscast in this. When Russell Crowe said how Cruise was a much younger man in the movie, I'm like "Dude, you're like a year younger than him."

 

Nah. Tom Cruise has been 39 for a decade. Russell Crowe has been 45 for as long as I can remember.

 

Estimates between $29-32 million for the weekend. Still gonna be second to WW.

 

this was.....wow. they really think THIS is going to kick off the "Dark Universe" project? Geez, it was just like a dumb action movie and the attempts to set up this "universe" felt so unoriginal.

I really, really, REALLY love the old Universal Monster films, from Hunchback all the way to The Brute Man, so I was really interested in this after hearing rumbles of this idea since like 2010. I hope they arent all just dumb action movies, thats kinda missing the point of having the monsters and the secondary characters. Maybe this will be a wake-up call and whoevers next will do a better job. Frankly it seems kinda redundant since the old Universal Monsters films were clearly in the same universe and crossed over with each other so why try and do it again? Those movies are still great.

 

Speaking of League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen what if they tied that into this universe as well and made the League the "heroes" so to speak? Maybe that could be neat. Theyre planning on bringing Van Helsing into the mix and theyve already got The Invisible Man and Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde so the seeds are there.

its sad that thinking about what this cinematic universe could be is far more exciting than this movie was

 

I really liked this. I like cinematic universes and I'm glad they used this to basically be Part 1 of the Dark Universe instead of straying away from it. Also it's already made $150 million the weekend in foreign territories. With $30 million in US that's a $180 worldwide opening weekend with a $125 million budget. That's not that bad.

 

That's not counting P&A, I heard the total budget was closer to $300 mil. Not a good opening weekend but it's Universal so they're probably just happy to be breaking even when it's all said and done. I don't see this effecting the Dark Universe

 

Yeah it's not going to make much above the budget and all of the marketing, but it's not going to be a bomb unless the foreign box office drops dramatically. I think it would be making more in the US if it was released in October but oh well.

 

Biggest worldwide opening for a Tom Cruise film.

 

That's crazy to me.

 

As much as I didn't like this, I'm still interested in what the future of the DU holds.

 

Are you sure about that opening? Forbes says its his THIRD biggest Non-Mission Impossible opening.

Box Office: Tom Cruise's 'The Mummy' Scores Boffo $174M Global Debut

 

Maybe the next one will be better as a movie. Supposedly it's Bride Of Frankenstein? Seems odd to introduce her before Frankensteins Monster but w/e as long as she has her iconic hair I'm down for whatever, she's probably my favorite of the classic monsters.

Am I the only one that's kinda side-eying casting Johnny Depp, who's been accused of abuse and made some tactless rape jokes, playing The Invisible Man who, if they're going with the book version, is a woman abuser and rapist? That just seems.....very very strange.

 

I guess we don't really need an origin story for Frankenstein's monster, we know who he is
Bill Condon is also directing it and he did Gods and Monsters which makes me excited

I'm not familiar with The Invisible Man but Johnny Depp is a POS, interesting how he's gone from someone I wanted to see movies for to someone I try to avoid, unless it's an ensemble like Murder On The Orient Express

 

Yeah, between Johnny Depp being in the next "Fantastic Beasts" and "Invisibles man," these are two bland franchises that are only diluted more with Depp's presence.

 

My bad. It was Tom Cruise's highest international film to date. So in the foreign markets it made more than his previous films did.

WONDER WOMAN Retains Weekend Box Office Crown With $57.2M, THE MUMMY Opens Huge Worldwide With $174M

 

It's weird that Dr Jekyll is the "Nick Fury" of this universe and it's strange what his plan is. It's like he's making monsters to fight monsters that wouldn't have been made if he didn't make monsters? Idk it's just such a strange way to basically set up what's going to be a kinda redundant idea

 

Ayyyy the RedLetterMedia guys are great. Mike has some of the best delivery and awkward timing

 

Have you seen Rock of Ages?

 

http://www.vulture.com/2017/06/tom-cruise-jake-johnson-mummy-workout.html

 

Very curious to see the international drop off for this. It's estimated that the film cost around $200 mil with the ads and what not. It's at $172 worldwide right now. It'll obviously recoup, but I don't know that it will have Universal double back a little bit. I think a fair estimate might be around $250 at the end of its run.